skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> People are susceptible to advertising but we aren't that susceptible.

I know a guy who bought a $500 axe (for chopping wood) from one of those "be a manly man" e-commerce sites that popped up a few years ago. He had never chopped wood before, and to this day he never has chopped wood. Ads convinced him he wanted it.

The same is true of all the ads from those companies, selling beautiful, sturdy compasses or hunting knives that never get dull.

Guns can be beautiful, well-made objects. They can make someone feed safe and prepared. I don't see any reason an ad couldn't convince someone that they want/need one, especially if they're seeing dozens of ads a day.
I've worked with python 17 years. I've taught python, javascript and typescript. There is a universe between how accessible JS is vs
Python.

And TCPIP may have helped but just because it's essential part of the stack doesn't mean the remote learning could have happened without JS existing (in the time it did). The web would be a glorified FTP server if some people here had their way.
I just use the one Microsoft sells for $60. What am I missing?

https://www.bestbuy.com/site/microsoft-ergonomic-keyboard-bl...
Hard to know what the right questions are until you've asked enough wrong ones.
microcontrollers are very low power because they are designed to run on batteries
Does it have full support for all the kinds of stacks people are running on Linux today? Is there a robust ecosystem of MirageOS users online able to help troubleshoot issues from the simple to the arcane? Is it supported by VPS providers the world over?

Personally, while I doubt these are the case, having never heard of MirageOS before, I'm willing to be proven wrong. However, if the answer to any of these is "no", I have a hard time seeing how "just abandon Linux wholesale for NewShinyThing" is a viable option for more than a tiny subset of users. (Even if they're all "yes", it's still a wildly unrealistic expectation...)
Btw, the agent that was fired, Colleen Oefelein, was also the victim of an attempted kidnap plot by her current husband's ex-mistress in 2007. This story, dubbed, the "Astronaut Love Triangle" because her husband and the ex were astronauts, was all over the news and even made into a movie starring Natalie Portman and Jon Hamm.

https://people.com/crime/astronaut-love-triangle-nine-years-...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucy_in_the_Sky
Unlike hearing a sound vs. just the pressure waves, data's form doesn't change when someone interacts with it. It's the same before and after. Sure, the pressure waves don't change, but it's the interaction with them that we call sound. Data is data before and after you look at it.
Allowing mass murderers to stream their crimes live is not going to fly. I think that's pretty clear.

So, Youtube has to do something about it. The way traditional broadcast media handles this is that they know whoever's reporting, and have someone watching who can pull the plug if that reporter goes nuts. This is apparently too expensive for YouTube, so they use blunter tools.
Aren’t there more ways how and more places where you can speak out today than ever before? Aren’t people able to say more radical or extreme things at scale than ever before?

I’m reminded of folks claiming that their voices are silenced but say so on Twitter, at physical events, on the news, etc.?

The irony seems mind boggling to me.
Azure Devops is such a good product.

I’m really surprised it doesn’t get more love to be honest.

And the CLI is fully featured and well supported, and makes automating stuff, and building your own UIs ridiculously simple.
> I’m sorry but I think if you believe that google can be cancelled by public opinion you are out of touch

Then what's your solution? you want govt censorship? they have rights! you should read the constitution.
Its a backup of whats on your google account. You set your phone to upload to google and once a month or so you download the backup.
Would you support breaking the near-monopolies that certain organizations have?
> This idea that drugs should be cheap and accessible the moment they are approved is incompatible with economic reality.

I know that orphan drugs are lifesaving and it is life-and-death for the people who do and don’t receive them, but this is generally not true, including for orphan drugs. I know because I have 2 rare immune mediated neurological diseases affecting my peripheral nervous system and I take an orphan drug (blood product) known as subcutaneous immunoglobulin.

Soliris, one of the world’s most expensive drugs, costing ~$600,000/year in countries with “socialized medicine” is estimated to cost less than 1% of that price to produce, as in less than $6,000/year. This is from industry insiders who have technical experience. Not only that, it is estimated that 80-90% of the work was discovered on public, government funds. See at 11:30
https://youtu.be/0uYCw5EDX8U

I have a background in applied science and I agree that this is the general ballpark case for orphan drugs, based on reading patents.
Decentralization of hosting responsibilities would certainly help bring down costs which is usually what makes it hard to make a competing hosting site. Then again any popular website _is_ going to need to go beyond standard protocol practices and try to censor certain illegal content.

We could just change our culture to be satisfied with 720p content and use traditional websites that don't use p2p tech. Like, we could all just start using bilibili.com or some other chinese competitors instead of youtube.
But I would not want to turn Minecraft into a 3D modeling program just because some people use it that way. Similarly, I do not want some external institution to force Youtube to become a video storage platform despite some people using it that way.

From a purely journalistic perspective, it is pretty cheap to run your own site. You can use efficient video codecs and there are many cheap VPS and CDN providers. New technology like peertube and IPFS can make this even cheaper. Taking a for-profit platform like Youtube and forcing it to cater to certain needs just makes it an even more entrenched part of peoples lives. Letting Youtube make itself worse for some purposes/topics encourages users to create and use other platforms.
America will always have adversaries. But enemies, who what to destroy the country? That's entirely our own creation.

We should try to make enemies only when attacked. Not make enemies out of adversaries.
Nobody is being hunted, that's pretty hyperbolic. If YouTube were silencing protests I wouldn't like that, but I don't rely on YouTube to understand what's going on in the world and I would encourage anyone concerned about YouTube's content policy to consider visiting other websites on the internet in addition to YouTube.
I kind of have this already, using the "Sunrise Alarm" feature built into Google's stock Android clock app.

15 minutes before my phone alarm goes off (not configurable sadly), the whole screen comes on a very dim red, and slowly fades through medium orange to a bright yellow at the time of the alarm.

With the phone laying flat on top of my dresser, this provides a great lighting cue.
Starter isn’t the free tier. It’s the self hosted equivalent of Bronze. And that’s also being removed.
YouTube is not just a platform to host vidoes on. It's a search engine, content feed, and social network. There is no adequate replacement. You can back up your videos somewhere else, but there isn't anywhere else that offers a comparable package.
I was interested in this so did some empirical work-- yes, people consistently prefer mild dissonance over perfect consonance -- at least with combinations of 3 sawtooth waves. Perfect consonance sounds colder while very slightly off tune sounds richer. It's an obvious effect (try it with a generator) but would be unrelated to violin playing
> e.g. code that uses funky casts, code that makes assumptions about data layout

Maybe it shouldn't be doing that? Isn't that the whole point of something like a -safe flag? Increase security as you go along. Yes it is going to take time. The best time to plant a tree is 20 years ago, next best is today.
Honestly not a whole lot. I have the much more expensive ergodox ez and the main features would be mechanical switches, full customization of the keyboard layout and the fact that you can spread them further out. On the ergodox you can have your arms pointing forwards rather than angled inwards. If none of that sounds interesting than there is no reason to get anything more.
I feel like I must be crazy that “speech loophole” is a serious term being thrown around at all.

We can wish them gone all we want, but man I just don’t see it happening.
It doesn't matter if a coworker can unblock you in 10 seconds, spend the 30 minutes struggling and sweating. That's when you grow. The struggle makes you grow.
Given that Python type checkers are becoming all the rage, will we ever see a compiler that actually uses those types to increase performance?
Right, and futexes also back condition variables in glibc.
Where would your law end? I’m curious how you’d write it...

Would it be something like:

“No person may delete content which has been made publically accessible on a server they administer without a court order demanding that content’s removal”?

Would you have a certain size threshold, like the law kicks in when you hit 1 million monthly uniques?
> are you prepared to have these tools fall into the wrong hands?

No, they aren't, and when that time comes around they won't own up to the sophistry they spout today.

Nobody has the right to leave it up to them. That is all there is to say. Don't ask the most spineless percentile, no matter how large, how to handle issues of this importance.

edit: oh fuck off with your cowardly button clicking already. If you can't own it, it's shit. Cope with it.
Yes. The solution to trolling has always been moderation.

If the moderation is too strict then people leave and setup elsewhere. If it is just the trolls leaving then no one cares and it is a win/win.
On whether a private company could prohibit the distribution of written materials in a town that they owned:

https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/326/501/

> Ownership does not always mean absolute dominion. The more an owner, for his advantage, opens up his property for use by the public in general, the more do his rights become circumscribed by the statutory and constitutional rights of those who use it.
I hope they do the same with Blocks. It's such an amazing tool for "sketching" in 3D, and it's fairly clear it's no longer getting active attention from Google
If someone uploaded non adult content to one of the adult sites doing totally non-controversial things, like discussing smart phones or say a 20 part series on linear algebra, would they be kicked off the platform? Is there some effort to titillate requirement?

I'm imagining some vlogger doing an epic trolling email thread with the mods about how "actually, many people find e&m physics lectures erotic..."
With pianos there are actually two things going on. They're tuned approximately to 12-tone equal temperament, but also the octave is stretched due to the inharmonicity inherent in the strings. (In the middle-range the strings are pretty well behaved, but in the high treble they start acting more like metal cylinders than ideal strings, and the bass has wound and double wound strings to similarly mess things up. The result is that the harmonics of piano strings aren't exactly multiples of the fundamental frequency, and so the tuning is stretched so that harmonics of lower notes more closely match the fundamentals of higher notes.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piano_acoustics#The_Railsback_...
For buying ergonomic chairs on a budget, you should check out used office supply stores. You can often save hundreds of dollars for a good quality chair.
How we entered this post-enlightment is how we can get past it. I believe some censoring, with specific rules and fair enforcement is a healthy way to go. The disinformation has gone too far. Some of us have relatives who live in a parallel reality. This can’t go on forever..

However, random censoring is bad and if it does not break the rules it should not be censored.
What adafruit board would be best for a beginner (at circuit python but long time developer otherwise) dad and his 8 year old kid?
I was just having a chat w/ a contributor yesterday and he told me a large aim of Circuit Python over MicroPython is to make the code you are writing in Circuit Python more transportable.

I.e. You write code in circuit python, and that same code will run on a little micro, and also a full blown Raspberry Pi.

This is apparently done at the expense of some prettiness.
If my memory serves me right, you are right. I think I've read that it was implemented with two relays per cell. These encode the last cardinal direction the mouse exited the cell in.
I wonder how much of this fear is related to continuing attitudes among hackers that unless you ask questions the "right" way, the folks who could best answer your question will sneer and dismiss you as "stupid" and say you didn't "earn" an answer?
Whether or not you even see specific content on Facebook, Google or Hacker News depends on sorting algorithms, so that would be one of the tools used to censor content. It's not just "the delete button", it's so much more, like how DMCA processes are handled or AIs created to find naked people (which affects artists).
Jobs and internships have their pros and cons, you just need to decide what is the best choice for you now and in the future.
Node.js Logging libraries compared for you to make the optimal choice
>What tools are these actually - the delete button?

Reach
Born and lived most of my life in Germany, now UK. I'd be willing to make that claim for much worse governed countries.

My birth place influences my position a lot. After the end of the war we enshrined the principle of 'militant democracy' in our basic law. Giving the state and its institutions the explicit power to deal with threats to the constitutional order, not repeating the mistakes of the weakened government of the Weimar period that gave rise to unchecked extremist forces.
I think the way to parse it is as "a renaissance of type checking, in python," i.e. in the same sense that "The Renaissance" was "a renaissance of classical culture, in Italy."
Sunrise alarms are definitely a thing. They slowly turn up a lamp when it's time to get up.

What you're describing is a toddler alarm. MAde for children that can't yet tell the time, but you put in the room and they show one color for sleeping and another for awake. Look up "toddler alarm" or "ok-to-wake clock" Here's the first one I found via google (non-affiliate link)

https://www.amazon.com/Hatch-Baby-Night-Light-Machine/dp/B06...
How do you measure the sizes of these modules? I counted lines from source code and systemd pam code was a 1k-2k lines of C total and pam is 30k lines of C.
> Why can't we have a culture of tolerance?

The paradox of tolerance states that if a society is tolerant without limit, its ability to be tolerant is eventually seized or destroyed by the intolerant. Karl Popper described it as the seemingly paradoxical idea that in order to maintain a tolerant society, the society must be intolerant of intolerance.[1]

If you haven't read Popper's "The Open Society and Its Enemies" then I'd suggest you do.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance
I’m not sure how pulling the rug out from under paying customers is helping retain paying customers.

And a race to bottom is creating an open source product “GitLab”, funding it with donations, creating a separate company “GitLab.com” which makes money by supporting GitLab, and at some point creating an entirely new product that isn’t open source but making that GitLab while letting the original open source version basically languish into something that is not useful at all.

I’m constantly surprised by why they don’t get more flak. I understand the developers are very active in the HN community and that is appreciated, but GitLab has been among the worse companies in how they’ve treated their open source, and now paying, users.
Yes although that's a tangential topic I feel related more to power concentration in a society. None of the organizations have close to a monopoly on communication or content. They simply all agree right now which is generally how implicit social rules tend to function. Eventually they'll start to disagree again in one way or another.
Sounds like it might be easier to just switch to a new bank, but it's an interesting strategy
Ah, yes, good callout. That reminded me of an LWN article on the topic: https://lwn.net/Articles/339337/
I have no idea why porn sites wouldn't attempt to compete, their technology is solid, sometimes industry leading. Diversify.
Yes. Having family help out on a 1-man show is an entirely different beast than hiring a full-time employee with wages, taxes, and healthcare. One of these two is a life-long trusted human that you've shared numerous life experiences with, the other is not.
That's why section 230 needs to be re-written. I'm fine with moderation, and I'm fine with sites that publish user-generated content defining their own content rules.

What I'm not fine with - and what the parent article is mainly focused on - are rules that are unevenly enforced in order to play favorites.

I would reform section 230 so say that you must post the site's user-generated content rules, and you must post a moderation log. The moderation log would consist of the list of moderation actions taken and the accounts affected, and the time.
Any moderation action that appears to not align with the stated content policy should be reviewable by a third party accredited arbitrator, at the plantiff's expense.

The net effect of this scenario would be to cause the sites to write down detailed rules about content, and enforce them fairly on all sides.

Right now there are simply too many flagrantly biased or inaccurate moderation decisions on these sites, and many of them seem to be motivated by political or economic reasons.

It's one thing to ask that sites be the "public square" because of the huge gift of liability protection that section 230 grants. This argument has not held up in courts.
It's a totally different thing to require sites play by their own rules, and hold them accountable for each hypocritical moderation action that genuinely hurts the "little guy"
It would be easy to check that...
Tests with Spring Boot MockMVC
Some self-acknowledged idiots making a few million on the stock market isn't going to have any measurable impact on the entire economy. And it'll be balanced out by a few hedge fund millionaires having to sell their third yacht.
> It would be great to see a breakdown and guidance to integrity checking of files through BTRFS/ZFS/ etc.

Like, if try to cause bitrot manually, and see how each recover?

There's this: https://askubuntu.com/questions/406463/how-can-i-flip-a-sing...

Incidently: I thought ZFS was ancient, and btrfs was a fairly new project, but I was wrong:

- ZFS was available in 2004: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZFS#Sun_Microsystems_(to_2010)

- btrfs was available in mainline linux in 2009: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Btrfs#History

> why is BTRFS not default FS

Perhaps because there are still some sharp edges around btrfs, particularly around RAID56 support. See https://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Status for details.
Javascript is not necessary to consume content. It wasn't necessary twenty years ago. It's necessary to deliver complex applications that happen to also run in the browser. We don't need another standard to usurp HTML+Javascript, we need to stop the practice of using technology that is meant for writing applications like Google Docs to display two paragraphs that were copied from the AP news feed.
There's MyHDL. Turns Python into a hardware description and verification language:

https://github.com/myhdl/myhdl
But to be clear, Open a source GitLab is not the same thing as Free GitLab.
Different things work for different people. Your only real option is to try all the options and see what works best for you personally. Luckily for wrist pain, the options are all cheap. Things to try:

Vertical mouse or trackball; they're all fine, you can get a "nice" one after finding what works first.

Wrist braces.

Wrist stretches.

Exercise; most weightlifting will improve your grip strength which helps some people.

Ergonomic chair; pain in the wrist can sometimes be caused by issues in the shoulder, which often result from a poorly placed arm rest. This is hard to notice as your shoulder might feel fine. Worth double checking.

Reduce stress; some amount of wrist pain can be caused by mental stress which results in tension and blood flow problems.

Laptop; your desktop environment might be great, but maybe you use a laptop too, and you're slowly destroying your wrists on its tiny form factor.
I would recommend sticking to software-based systems on a modern computer, then. Virtual machines are really fun for this.

The home computers of the 80s were anything but simple. They were very sophisticated, and the designs of those systems were very tightly integrated. Understanding them completely would be a daunting task.

If you're not looking for something to base your master's thesis on, then I really recommend sticking to software. Find an existing virtual machine to tinker with, or build your own! If you don't have crazy performance or capability goals, then it's not as hard as it sounds.
I think that asking users "do you want to let this site run JavaScript?" would have been an acceptable trade-off in availability.
The Unraid pricing page has this curious request in bold:

> Please do not use a comcast.net email address to purchase a license key.

Anyone know what the problem with comcast.net email addresses is? I know that in general it is not great to use addresses tied to your ISP for long term things, but that that applies to most ISPs so I’m guessing the issue is something specific to Comcast.
> Platforms must be restricted to those who prove they can use them appropriately.

Oh, I found it, the satire giveaway was at the end.
Yeah bluffing is tricky.
I don't have a problem with moderation but I do have a problem when infrastructure providers like AWS decide how their clients should moderate their content.

You can't have competition when some of the competitors can't use the infrastructure. It is not without reason that utility providers can't discriminate and I think it is time to decide what is considered a utility in the internet age.
cpanel is a web-based thing though, isn't it?

You'd need shell access to the host to execute `sudo` and attempt to exploit it.
Aren’t those institutions sort of circumventable by lying? Can’t I just say “Barrin92 is a bastard, so I’ve banned them from speaking. Look no closer lest I ban you, too.” Feels like we might be better off in the long run by agreeing on ground rules ahead of time and then sticking to them, no?
Rocket is nice but I had a much, much better experience with Warp[0]. I ran into a lot of roadblocks with Rocket, especially with stuff like JWT and working with databases. No such issues with Warp.

0: https://github.com/seanmonstar/warp
Btrfs, wicked, yast, Uyani...

Plenty if differences.
PornHub have lots of non-NSFW contents -- they have no issue with that.

You just don't want NSFW ad popup when you view them.
Paragraph b3 says this: “It is the policy of the United States to encourage the development of technologies which maximize user control over what information is received by individuals, families, and schools who use the Internet”

I think the technologies where a centralized commercial company controls which information is received by users violates at least the spirit of that law.